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MEDICAL EDUCATION INNOVATION
We became one of 32 medical colleges nationwide chosen since 2013 to join the American Medical Association ’ s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium . The Consortium enhances innovative work underway at medical schools as they create curriculum models of the future . The accompanying three-year , $ 75,000 grant from AMA advances our “ transformative care curriculum ,” a competency-based demonstration project that integrates primary care delivery and medical education . A team of medical and education professionals from the Heritage College and Cleveland Clinic are developing the curriculum , slated to launch in 2018 at our Cleveland campus . The new educational pathway will provide select students who commit to primary care at the outset of their undergraduate program a direct route into
Cleveland Clinic family medicine residency programs .
CLINICIANS . RESEARCHERS .
LEADERS .
Adam Jara , D . O . (’ 16 ), Ph . D ., received our first Transition to Research Independence Award to support his research work during postgraduate medical training . Jara is currently a first-year resident in psychiatry at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center .
Our first class of three students in the D . O ./ M . B . A . program completed their M . B . A . degrees . Dan Krajcik , Ashleigh Slemmer and Andy Leubitz , pictured here with fellow M . B . A . graduate Elizabeth Rosenfeld ( third from left ), are currently in their third year of medical school .
Two D . O ./ Ph . D . candidates were awarded highly competitive summer research fellowships from the Endocrine Society for their outstanding work .
Ashley Patton ( top ) studies inflammation and liver disease , and Elizabeth Jensen ( bottom ) studies the effect of growth hormone on the gut microbiome .